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Re: Universal Translator

Well, again another idea to absurdly inflate the cost of a wearable, what if you could put a
laser- or infra-red scanner pointed at their lips to recognize the movements?  Perhaps, for a
little cheaper, all you HUD users with camera could hack together a script that finds lips and
read them?

"Tristram W. Metcalfe III" wrote:

>  wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Alex Feinman wrote:
> >
> > Quick non-tech problem: it would probably look very impolite (not to
> > mention rather silly) to point at the person's mouth whenever they start
> > speaking.  Having this, say, on the back of the hand, with an easy way to
> > turn it on or off, would probably work nicely and unobtrusively.
> >
>
> Here's one of the many uses for your HMD (in this excellant value of WCs),, to target the
> mouth you select to listen to, either with a display's cross hairs or just know the target
> coordinates of the presighted and tested gun mic worn some where above your neck facing near
> the field of view. The voice may be to your far peripheral vision enabling the tracking of a
> voice that may not be exactly where you're looking. (this ability will remain valued, even
> after many years of voice recognition improvements, for the "cocktail party" syndrome in
> understanding people in a situatuation where everyone becomes handicapped with a level of
> deafness, i.e. use just for translating blab,blah,bluh to your language).
> The psychology factor's in 'face to face' may also mean need for quick adjustable orienting
> of the mic with out losing track of it in your hmd.
>
> .02
> tris
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